Machine generated contents note: 25. New Zealand Literature in the Program Era, or, the Spirit of Nationalism Past / 1. World of Waters: Imagining, Voyaging, Entanglement / Hugh Roberts. 2. Early Maori Literature: The Writing of Hakaraia Kiharoa / Arini Loader -- 3. Samuel Butler's Influence / Simon During -- 4. Maoriland Reservations / Jane Stafford -- 5. Katherine Mansfield: Colonial Modernist / Bridget Orr -- pt. II 1920-1950 -- 6. Colonial Ecologies: Guthrie-Smith's Tutira and Writing in the Settled Environment / Philip Steer -- 7. Defiance and Melodrama: Fiction in the Period of National `Invention', 1920-1950 / Alex Calder -- 8. Journalism and High Culture: Robin Hyde among the Cultural Nationalists / Nikki Hessell -- 9. `Simply by Sailing in a New Direction': The Poetics of Distance / Stuart Murray -- 10. `Rough Architects': New Zealand Literature and Its Institutions from Phoenix to Landfall / Christopher Hilliard -- pt. III 1950-1972 -- 11. Against the Social Pattern: New Zealand Fiction, 1950-1970 / Timothy Jones -- 12. Janet Frame: Myths of Authorship, 1950-1990 / Marc Delrez -- 13. Te Ao Hou: Te Pataka / Alice Te Punga Somerville -- 14. Out of the Drawing Room and onto the Beach: Drama, 1950-1970 / Mark Houlahan -- 15. `Physician of Society': The Poet in the 1950s and 1960s / Alan Riach -- pt. IV 1972-1990 -- 16. From Hiruharama to Hataitai: The Domestication of New Zealand Poetry, 1972-1990 / Mark Williams -- 17. Novel, the Short Story, and the Rise of a New Reading Public, 1972-1990 / Lydia Wevers -- 18. `DBed and chocolate wheaten beaten': Drama Defining the Nation, 1972-1990 / David O'Donnell -- 19. Maori Renaissance from 1972 / Melissa Kennedy -- pt. V 1990-2014 -- 20. `While History Happens Elsewhere': Fiction and Political Quietism, 1990-2014 / Dougal McNeill -- 21. Anecdote in Post-1990 New Zealand Poetry / Anna Smaill -- 22. From Exploring Identity to Facing the World: Drama Since 1990 / Stuart Young -- 23. From Meadow to Paddock: Children's and Young Adult Literature / Anna Jackson -- 24. `Nafanua and the New World': Pasifika's Writing of Niu Zealand / Selina Tusitala Marsh -- 25. New Zealand Literature in the Program Era, or, the Spirit of Nationalism Past / Hugh Roberts.
Summary:
"A History of New Zealand Literature traces the genealogy of New Zealand literature from its first imaginings by colonial Europeans to the development of a national canon in the twentieth century. Beginning with a comprehensive introduction that charts the growth of a national literary tradition, this History includes extensive essays that illuminate the cultural and political intricacies of New Zealand literature. Organized thematically, these essays survey the multilayered verse and fiction of such diverse writers as Katherine Mansfield, Allen Curnow, Frank Sargeson, Janet Frame, Keri Hulme, Witi Ihimaera and Patricia Grace. Written by a host of leading scholars, this History devotes special attention to the lasting significance of colonialism and multiculturalism in New Zealand literature. This book is of pivotal importance to the development of New Zealand writing and will serve as an invaluable reference for specialists and students alike"-- Provided by publisher.
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